Languages of the Unsayable
Subtitle: The Play of Negativity in Literature and Literary Theory (Irvine Studies in the Humanities)
Contributors: Sanford Budick (Editor); Wolfgang Iser (Editor)
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: July 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780231068666
Subjects: Literary theory; Special Subjects In Literature; History and criticism; Literature; Negativity (Philosophy) in lit; Negativity (Philosophy) in literature; Silence in literature; Theory, etc; Philosophy
First sentence: EVEN BEFORE starting to prepare this lecture, I knew that I wished to speak of the "trace" in its relationship to what one calls, sometimes erroneously, "negative theology."